WASHINGTON, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --U.S. News & World Report announced today the launch of a blogging network featuring advice from leading thinkers in diet and fitness. A considerable expansion of U.S. News's Health and Wellness offerings, "Eat+Run" will provide readers with concrete tips to separate fads from facts and bolster good health.

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"In a world increasingly flooded with information, and misinformation, the need for clear and trustworthy insight has never been more important," says Kimberly Castro, Managing Editor of U.S. News's Money and Health sections. "We take seriously our historic mission to provide readers with 'News You Can Use,' and Eat+Run delivers on our commitment to service journalism and helping our readers thrive."

With its roster of luminaries in diet and fitness, Eat+Run is poised to inspire readers with pithy and practical guidance and reflects U.S. News's increasingly robust health coverage. The company recently added Best Diets to its portfolio of rankings, which includes, for example, Best Hospitals and Best Colleges.

Among those who will be blogging for Eat+Run are physicians, academics, registered dietitians, fitness experts, celebrity trainers, and an organic farmer.

For updates and more information, follow Eat+Run on Twitter at @eatandrunUSN and visit the new network at http://www.health.usnews.com.

About U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report is a multi-platform, digital publisher of news and analysis, which includes the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, http://www.usnews.com, and http://www.rankingsandreviews.com. Focusing on Health, Money, Education, Travel, Cars, and Public Service/Opinion, U.S. News has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. U.S. News & World Report's signature franchise includes its News You Can Use brand of journalism and its "Best" series of consumer guides that include rankings of colleges, graduate schools, hospitals, mutual funds, health plans, and more.

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Beloit, Wisconsin (PRWEB) July 09, 2012

FatWallet, the preferred online shopping resource for millions of savvy consumers, presents a hot summer Health & Fitness Deals promotion running through July 15. Shoppers will find big savings on vitamins, nutritional supplements, workout gear, exercise equipment, and sports apparel. FatWallet currently lists hundreds of health and fitness bargains from popular retail stores like Puritans Pride and Under Armour who are also offering shoppers the added savings of increased cash back rewards for FatWallet members during this promotion.

"FatWallet is a one-stop shopping web site where I can find all the best coupons, discounts, and shopping tips," said FatWallet member Lee Willhite. They really take the work out of looking for the best deals.

Stores featuring health and fitness related summer deals and coupon codes in July 2011 experienced an average 32% increase in sales from FatWallet shoppers compared to July 2010. This is a great time of year to look for sales and clearance on health and fitness related merchandise, stated FatWallet spokesperson, Brent Shelton. Smart shoppers will take advantage of this reduced pricing coupled with even more savings of Cash Back rewards from FatWallet. Summer shoppers will also find hundreds of fast-selling seasonal bargains in the FatWallet Hot Deals forum and the popular Todays Best Deals where savvy members and expert staff list only the best values found from all over the internet each day.

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The last five years have been tough for those in retirement. Portfolio valuations have been hammered, annuity rates have plunged and uncertainty has ruled the roost. There's no sign of things improving any time soon, either, as the eurozone and the UK economy look set to muddle through at best for some years to come.

A great way of protecting yourself from the downturn, however, is by building your retirement fund with shares of large, well-run companies that should grow their earnings steadily over the coming decades. Over time, such investments ought to result in rising dividends and inflation-beating capital growth, especially if you keep the shares within a tax-efficient ISA or SIPP.

It's no coincidence that the world's most successful investor, Warren Buffett, prefers such companies, and recently invested in a large FTSE 100 (Euronext: VFTSE.NX - news) (UKX) company that fits the bill perfectly (you can find full details in this free report).

In this series, I'm tracking down the UK large caps that have the potential to beat the FTSE over the long term and support a lower-risk income-generating retirement fund. I'm going to kick off the series with a look at SSE (Frankfurt: A0RFBG - news) , the UK's third-largest electricity utility and a share that's a big favourite of income investors, thanks to its superb dividend record.

Defensive performer

Utility shares are traditionally 'defensive' shares -- shares that are popular during times of economic volatility, such as we have seen in the last few years. SSE has benefited from this defensive bias and from the attraction its dividend policy holds for long-term investors looking for a reliable income. As a result, it has massively outperformed the FTSE 100 over the last 10 years:

If you are building up a retirement portfolio, total return is a useful metric for measuring the performance of your stock, as it captures the effects of share price changes and reinvested dividends. These two ingredients combined are what make it possible for equity portfolios to regularly outperform cash and bonds over the long term.

The trailing 10-year average total return highlights just how valuable SSE's stability and strong dividend performance is for retirement investors. Despite SSE getting left behind in the rebound rally of 2009, it didn't crash in 2011 and its trailing total return over the last 10 years is double that of the FTSE 100.

What's the score?

To help me pinpoint suitable investments, I like to score companies on key financial metrics that highlight the characteristics I look for in a retirement share. Let's see how SSE shapes up:

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(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY The topic of retirement already causes many people to lose sleep at night, as they realize they don't have enough money saved up to retire any time soon. Making matters worse is the understanding that we may need to help our parents with long-term care in their final years, placing another emotional and financial burden on our finances and families.

Then another troubling reality hits: We may need the same special care in a few decades.

Several heart-wrenching stories have appeared in the news of late describing the travails of baby-boomers struggling to cope with aging parents. (If you haven't experienced these challenges first-hand, I encourage you to read "A Life Worth Ending" in New York Magazine, "The Long Goodbye" in Time Magazine, and "Preparing for a Future That Includes Aging Parents" on National Public Radio's website.)

These reports give you an up close and personal look at the challenges we'll all face, either with our parents or for ourselves down the road. The stories sounded all too familiar to my wife and I, as our families scrambled in recent years to help my father and her mother receive the care they needed in their final years. Our experience provided a wake-up call to plan ahead in order to address this challenge for ourselves in the years to come.

Long term care for aging parents could reach $300,000 per person: How to cope Should you buy long term care insurance? Don't let Alzheimer's and dementia spoil your retirement

A long-term care event -- either with your parents or yourself -- can easily destroy anyone's retirement plans. The cost of paying for long-term care at a nursing home for a few years -- which insurance firm Genworth recently calculated at more than $80,000 per year -- could pay to send a grandkid to Harvard or fund a nice retirement.

Since we're on a roll, let's get all the bad news on the table. Recently, major insurers such as MetLife (MET), Prudential (PRU), and Unum (UNM) have stopped selling new policies for long-term care insurance, citing low interest rates, growing life expectancies, and uncertainty surrounding the prevalence and duration of Alzheimer's and dementia. The Obama administration also announced last year that it was shelving implementation of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program because of problems in designing a financially viable program to pay for long-term care. If feds couldn't solve this problem, what are our chances?

OK, I've got your attention. Now what? Well, you can't just sit around and brood about it. One of my favorite quotes comes from singer Joan Baez: "Action is the antidote to despair." So what can we do to take action, either for ourselves or our parents?

There are only two things we can do: (1) Take steps to reduce the odds of needing long-term care, and (2) prepare a plan for paying for the costs in case we need such care. Much easier said than done, of course, but that's the plan.

If you're now facing these issues with your parents, the die has already largely been cast. It's most likely too late to buy long-term care insurance, and your parents can't go back and retroactively save more money to pay for the care they need. But they can still take steps to improve their health, regardless of their age, and you can make the best use of existing financial and family resources.

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EAST GRANBY, Conn., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Retirement Advisor Council made public and freely available a template Request for Proposal (RFP) questionnaire for use by 401(k) and 403(b) plan sponsors looking to select an Advisor. The document covers all the elements of service typically available from Professional Retirement Plan Advisors, including investment services, participant services, provider services, fiduciary support, and compliance support. This customizable document includes 65 questions on five pages. You can obtain the template RFP questionnaire in Microsoft Word document form on the Web site of the Council at http://www.retirementadvisor.us. The template is provided for use without copyright restrictions.

To supplement the template RFP questionnaire, the Council developed an Advisor search protocol for use by plan sponsors also posted on the Web site of the Council.The protocol outlines a suggested process for plan sponsors seeking to select a professional retirement plan advisor, or to perform due diligence on a current advisor.

"The advisor RFP questionnaire will assist plan sponsors in complying with recent legislative regulations centered on fee / service benchmarking; it also provides a turnkey solution saving both time and resources for the plan sponsor relative to production of the questionnaire. The fact that the questionnaire stems from the experience and business models of a highly successful and nationally recognized group of advisors enables a sponsor to avoid the "guess work" in regards to what should be asked or measured in the benchmarking of an investment/fiduciary advisor." says Council member Gregg Andonian, AIF, Principal, Baystate Fiduciary Advisors, Inc.

The Retirement Advisor Council developed the protocol and the accompanying advisor search RFP template over a twelve-month period between July 2011 and July 2012 with input and feedback from the Plan Sponsor Council of America and Asset International, Inc., publisher of PlanSponsor Magazine and PlanAdviser Magazine. The document is the result of months of hard work by a dedicated Cabinet of advisors, advisory firms, service providers, and investment managers collaborating to enhance plan and participant outcomes. The Cabinet was headed by Steve Davis, Regional Vice President at The Hartford. The Council intends to periodically review the protocol and the advisor search RFP template to keep both documents current.

About the Retirement Advisor Council

The Council advocates for successful qualified plan and participant retirement outcomes through the collaborative efforts of experienced, qualified retirement plan advisors, investment firms and asset managers, and defined contribution plan service providers. The Council accomplishes this mission by its focus on:

Learn more about the Council at http://www.retirementadvisor.us

For more information and/or interview requests:Eric Henon (860) 653-1705 ehenon@eachenterprise.com

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Its been a rough couple of weeks for Hollywood good guys, who now number three fewer as a result of the recent deaths of 71-year-old Nora Ephron, 86-year-old Andy Griffith, and -- earlier today -- 95-year-old Ernest Borgnine. While the death of a 95-year-old isnt shocking to anyone, the death of this particular one is certainly saddening to me because of who he was and what he represented, in terms of both the history of American cinema and my own life.

Ermes Effron Borgnino was one of the greatest character actors to ever grace the big or small screen. The son of Italian immigrants, he was literally a walking contradiction. He was a giant of a man, with a face only a mother could love -- big eyes, big nose, and big gap-toothed smile, all attached to a hulking body -- but, as anyone who ever crossed paths with him at any point in his life attests, he also possessed the gentlest of souls. (To get a great sense of what a lovely guy he was and how much he liked people, check out the 1997 documentary Ernest Borgnine on the Bus.) Once he decided to try acting, for lack of a better idea, at the age of 28, it was this very dichotomy that enabled him to vibrantly bring to life, for multiple generations, as wide an array of characters as anyone in his profession.

He played mean-spirited tough guys in From Here to Eternity (1953), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), and The Wild Bunch (1969), and a sensitive bachelor who struggles to find love in Marty (1955), for which he won a best actor Oscar. He played a stern but lovable skipper on the comedic TV series McHale's Navy (1963-1966), and also semi-retired superhero on the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants (2008-2011). He played a general in The Dirty Dozen (1967), a cabbie in Escape from New York (1981), and a feisty survivor in the disaster films The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). In short, he could play just about anything.

I first learned about Borgnine, who happened to be a fellow Connecticut native, when I was almost 15 years old and my father brought home a VHS of Marty, the movie that had won the best picture Oscar back when he was 15 years old, and which he remembered enjoying. My younger siblings and I, like most kids, had no interest whatsoever in an old black-and-white movie -- with so much dialogue and so little action it couldn't possibly be good, we reasoned -- but, on that particular night, my father pleaded so hard with us to watch it with him that we didn't have the heart to say no. I'm very grateful that he did, because even though I didn't love the film (I was far too young to fully appreciate it), I also didn't dislike it, and it opened my mind to the possibility that classic movies might not be so bad, after all. In fact, it was just a short time later that I came across a list of the 100 greatest movies of all-time and decided to try to make my way through the selections just for the heck of it, a project that quickly evolved into an irrepressible love affair with film history that set me on the course of doing the very thing that I do for a living -- and, yes, still for pleasure -- today.

You can therefore imagine how cool it was for me that I got to speak with Ernest Borgnine -- or "Ernie," as he insisted that I call him -- on a number of memorable occasions in recent years.

When I was still in high school, I started interviewing as many key players from film history as I could convince to speak with me for what I intended -- and still intend -- to be a book about old movies for young people. My stated objective was to help to keep those movies, and interest in them, alive and well for generations to come, which is something that a considerable number of stars were willing to help me to try to do. One of the first people who I managed to contact, and who was kind enough to agree to speak with me, was Borgnine. Another actor had given me his home telephone number and told me that he was sure that he wouldn't mind speaking with me, so I called him up one afternoon after school, and he couldn't have been more gregarious. He listened to my spiel, and then told me that he would be very happy to be interviewed by me if I called him a few days later, on Saturday morning, at 8 a.m.

Thrilled by this big "get," I spent hours and hours preparing for the interview -- watching and re-watching his films, reading other interviews he had given, and writing out provocative questions -- and eventually came to feel fairly confident that it would all turn out well. On the appointed day, at 8 a.m., I called Borgnine again. When he answered the phone, sounding disoriented and bewildered, I just assumed that he had forgotten that I would be calling him, so I said, "Hi, Mr. Borgnine, it's Scott Feinberg. How are you?" After a bit of a pause and then some stuttering, he replied, "My boy, do you know what time it is?" My heart sank. I realized that, in my excitement about the interview, I had somehow just assumed that Borgnine was in New York, not Los Angeles, and was therefore operating on Eastern Standard Time just like me. It was now clear to me that he wasn't. I was mortified, quickly tried to explain the mistake, and then hung up. He was very nice about it all, but when 8 a.m. PST finally came around three hours later, I just didn't have the nerve to call him back.

Flash-forward a number of years to September 26, 2008, my first day on the job as a blogger about the film industry, generally, and the awards season, specifically, for the Los Angeles Times. I was very excited about this new opportunity, but also very nervous about proving that I deserved it and, most importantly, deserved to retain it. Fortunately, my first day on the job provided me with a perfect opportunity to do just that: film great Paul Newman passed away unexpectedly, and I quickly set to work figuring out which old movie stars I had in my Rolodex who had some sort of a connection to Newman. Within an hour, I had reached out to -- and gotten some great quotes for a post from -- the actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar for her performance opposite Newman in Hud (1963), the actor Cliff Robertson, who studied with Newman at the Actors Studio (and eventually won an Oscar of his own), the actor Mickey Rooney, one of the legendary elders of the industry who knew and admired Newman, and, yes, Ernest Borgnine, who worked with Newman in When Time Ran Out (1980).

When I called Borgnine that day, I didn't mention that I was the same guy who had once awakened him at 5 a.m. (I was too embarassed), but just told him that I was a reporter who hoped that he might have a memory or thought to share, and he was very happy to oblige. Because he was so friendly and helpful, I took the liberty of contacting him for quotes on several other occasions over the years between then and now, during which my own career has taken me from the Los Angeles Times back to my personal website and now to The Hollywood Reporter, and he was always lovely.

The most memorable of those exchanges came when Joe Mantell, the great character actor who earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his memorable performance as Marty's best friend Angie opposite Borgnine in Marty, passed away in 2010 at the age of 94. Mantell's family, whom I had gotten to know a little while trying to schedule an interview with Mantell, shared the sad news with me before virtually anyone else, and asked me to help get the word out to the press. I did so, and also decided to call up Borgnine. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I felt that, in this case, it would be no worse, and would perhaps be better, if he learned it from me rather than reading about it in the newspaper -- assuming a newspaper would even cover it.

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APPLETON, Wis. - Miller Electric Mfg. Co. introduces new digital controls and new headgear for its Arc Armor Digital Elite(TM), Digital Performance(TM) and Digital Pro-Hobby(TM) Series auto-darkening welding helmets. The all-new digital controls make it easier for the welder to adjust shade, delay and sensitivity - even when wearing gloves - compared to previous digital and analog designs. The Digital Performance and Digital Pro-Hobby product lines replace previous product designs that only featured analog controls.

The new headgear is designed to increase comfort, is substantially easier to adjust to personal preferences than previous models and has been tested to withstand the rigors of daily use. The headgear conforms to the user's head and offers more flexibility with six points of adjustment. The integrated comfort cushion mounted on the back of the headgear further ensures a secure and sturdy fit.

"The updates to our full Arc Armor line of digital auto-darkening welding helmets makes settings and adjustments much more intuitive, with easy manipulation and clear markings on the control panel," said Eric Sommers, product manager, Miller. "The updated headgear is more flexible, more durable and the welder is more comfortable for longer periods of time. Whether welding all day for work or on the weekends in your home garage, the new upgrades ensure maximum comfort, productivity and performance."

The updates also include the introduction of two new female-inspired graphic designs: Fury(TM) and Illusion(TM). These are the industry's first large-window professional-grade helmets with graphics for women.

"Personal identity is very important to welders," said Sommers. "While we see women wearing our current graphic designs, we've heard many requests to create designs with more of a feminine appeal. These two new designs are our first steps in that direction."

The full line of Arc Armor digital helmets comes with a new three-year warranty that matches the longest warranty in the industry for a welding helmet.

"Welders can take comfort in knowing the helmets will provide long lasting performance in addition to enhanced functionality and comfort," said Sommers.

Product links MillerWelds.com Product Page New Digital Elite Series Video Overview New Headgear Video Overview

Additional product information The Arc Armor line of digital auto-darkening welding helmets offers something for welders of all skill levels and applications:

Digital Elite Series: These helmets feature four operating modes: weld, cut, grind and x-mode. X-mode eliminates sunlight interference and low-amperage lens opening caused by obstructed views. The helmet features a nine-square-inch viewing area and four independent arc sensors for maximum viewing and dependable lens response. An auto-on/auto-off feature triggers the lens immediately upon arc strikes, ensuring protection and saving batteries when not in use. Digital Elite Series helmets offer variable shades #8-13 for welding (including in x-mode), #5-8 for cutting, and light state #3.5 for grinding. TIG rating: 5 amps.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Ruckus Wireless today announced that Atlantic Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company,has selected and deployed its Smart Wi-Fi products and technology at the company's 65 fixed base operations (FBOs) at general aviation airports across the United States. Based in Plano, Texas, Atlantic Aviation operates the largest network of FBOs in the country.

The new Wi-Fi infrastructure was built to provide high-capacity, high-performance Wi-Fi to users of its FBOs, including pilots, private aircraft users and visitors.

Atlantic Aviation provides a variety of aviation services to its FBO locations such as concierge services for private aircraft owners and pilots, as well as luggage handling, fueling, and food service. Because its clients are primarily business executives and high-worth individuals, Atlantic Aviation required reliable, high-performance Wi-Fi for guest access as well as to streamline the efficiency of its operations.

"Our clientele is demanding and expects both quality and speed when it comes to pretty much everything. Wi-Fi is no different," said Joel Collins, project management office manager for Atlantic Aviation. "Wi-Fi access is an essential part of using our operations especially since private aircraft owners and their guests carry multiple wireless-only devices when they're at one of our locations.

"We'd had nothing but problems with Wi-Fi for years, and it had become the number one complaint we were receiving," continued Collins. "The challenge was how to implement consistently high-quality Wi-Fi across all of our locations and also provide coverage outdoors on the actual runways without placing too many demands on IT staff at our headquarters."

Atlantic Aviation Gets Its Wings with Smart Wi-Fi

The company's previous Wi-Fi infrastructure was mediocre at best, according to Collins. "The technology was inconsistent from location to location, which caused performance issues at nearly all of the sites and made it difficult to manage."

After a rigorous RFP process, Collins' team chose Blueprint RF to install and manage the network. Blueprint RF's proposal was for an upgrade to a higher performance, high-capacity network powered by Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi technology and products. Blueprint RF handled the deployment and now manages Atlantic Aviation's Wi-Fi infrastructure.

"Given the compelling price/performance and range of coverage Ruckus delivers, there's wasn't a lot of debate," said Ron Peterson, Blueprint RF CEO. "Because of the ever-changing nature of the environment at every FBO site, Ruckus' adaptive antenna technology was the best to address Atlantic Aviation's needs. The performance is very impressive."

Built with its patented adaptive antenna array, the Ruckus ZoneFlex system is designed to overcome the physical and technical challenges of delivering high-capacity, high-performance access to indoor and outdoor areas which are prone to interference or which pose physical barriers to signal penetration for seamless connections. By focusing and directing Wi-Fi signals over the best signal path, the ZoneFlex system is the only one on the market that automatically avoids interference to ensure consistent performance and high throughput.

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KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwire -07/09/12)- Think Kansas City's just famous for being a legendary jazz town?

Not anymore, thanks to the explosive power-pop of The Strive, a KC based band that brings intense and infectious mix of power guitars and propulsive grooves.

They named their band after the spirited, forward thinking aesthetic they brought to their 2010 debut EP Anything Goes and their new follow-up EP Design The Road, which drops July 10 and produced in Austin, Texas by Matt Noveskey, bassist for the rock band Blue October.

For a group that's only been around since the winter of 2010 -- and debuted its current lineup of Nick Stacy, Luke Davis, Greg Dowd, Michael Zenk and charismatic frontman Brendan Stevens in March 2011 -- The Strive has made spectacular inroads on the indie scene.

Besides their formal releases, the home recorded "Caught Inside" quickly rose to the top of the charts on purevolume.com's Top Unsigned Bands playlist. In addition to developing a passionate following via performances at KC hotspots like the Beaumont Club and Uptown Theatre, The Strive have performed on bills with Hawthorne Heights, Ivoryline, All Time Low and Yellowcard; played shows in Milwaukee, Dallas, Austin and the Springboard South Festival in Houston; and were featured at the Red, White & Boom concert, at KC's Starlight Theatre, that included performances by Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw. The band will be performing July 9 at The Vans Warped Tour on the Ernie Ball Stage at The Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Kansas City.

With heartfelt, personal lyrics by Stevens and music by Davis and Stacy, the songs on Design the Road reveal writers that are deep thinkers and artists whose powerhouse performances are genuine and original but have an irresistible commercial appeal. In addition to Stevens' soaring, emotional vocals, the two things that immediately hit listeners who are new to The Strive experience are Davis' blistering electric guitar fire and Stacy's deep and versatile drum grooves, which are propulsive to the point of wild hypnosis.

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FARNBOROUGH, England, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (RTN) has won an award valued at $4.7 million from the U.S. Army for Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of the Personal Electronics Computer and Display System in support of the Air Soldier System. The Air Soldier System is the next generation of the Air Warrior System, a U.S. Army rotary-wing air crew ensemble featuring wearable electronics that enhance life support and tactical capabilities.

Under the contract, Raytheon will design, develop and qualify three of the six components in the suite of Integrated Personal Electronics for the next generation of the Air Soldier System. These components include the Soldier Computer Module, the main processing and storage unit for the system; the Personal Display Module, the user interface for the system and display for dismounted activities; and the Mission Display Module, a mounted display for mission and navigation information. Raytheon has more than 10 years of experience supporting the Air Soldier customer through the PM Air Warrior Electronic Data Manager, GPS Message Router and Interactive Situational Awareness System product lines.

"Among other developments, the Air Soldier System will be lighter, last longer and provide more integrated controls," stated John Harris, president of Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company. "This translates to enhanced situational awareness that better supports the mission."

About RaytheonRaytheon Company, with 2011 sales of $25 billion and 71,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 90 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at http://www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter at @raytheon.

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